linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/3] xen-blkfront: Advertise feature-persistent as user requested

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Message-Id: <20220831165824.94815-3-sj@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 31 Aug 2022 16:58:23 +0000
From:   SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
To:     jgross@...e.com, roger.pau@...rix.com
Cc:     SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>, marmarek@...isiblethingslab.com,
        mheyne@...zon.de, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, axboe@...nel.dk,
        ptyadav@...zon.de, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] xen-blkfront: Advertise feature-persistent as user requested

The advertisement of the persistent grants feature (writing
'feature-persistent' to xenbus) should mean not the decision for using
the feature but only the availability of the feature.  However, commit
74a852479c68 ("xen-blkfront: add a parameter for disabling of persistent
grants") made a field of blkfront, which was a place for saving only the
negotiation result, to be used for yet another purpose: caching of the
'feature_persistent' parameter value.  As a result, the advertisement,
which should follow only the parameter value, becomes inconsistent.

This commit fixes the misuse of the semantic by making blkfront saves
the parameter value in a separate place and advertises the support based
on only the saved value.

Fixes: 74a852479c68 ("xen-blkfront: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants")
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 5.10.x
Suggested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index 8e56e69fb4c4..dfae08115450 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -213,6 +213,9 @@ struct blkfront_info
 	unsigned int feature_fua:1;
 	unsigned int feature_discard:1;
 	unsigned int feature_secdiscard:1;
+	/* Connect-time cached feature_persistent parameter */
+	unsigned int feature_persistent_parm:1;
+	/* Persistent grants feature negotiation result */
 	unsigned int feature_persistent:1;
 	unsigned int bounce:1;
 	unsigned int discard_granularity;
@@ -1848,7 +1851,7 @@ static int talk_to_blkback(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 		goto abort_transaction;
 	}
 	err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "feature-persistent", "%u",
-			info->feature_persistent);
+			info->feature_persistent_parm);
 	if (err)
 		dev_warn(&dev->dev,
 			 "writing persistent grants feature to xenbus");
@@ -2281,7 +2284,8 @@ static void blkfront_gather_backend_features(struct blkfront_info *info)
 	if (xenbus_read_unsigned(info->xbdev->otherend, "feature-discard", 0))
 		blkfront_setup_discard(info);
 
-	if (feature_persistent)
+	info->feature_persistent_parm = feature_persistent;
+	if (info->feature_persistent_parm)
 		info->feature_persistent =
 			!!xenbus_read_unsigned(info->xbdev->otherend,
 					       "feature-persistent", 0);
-- 
2.25.1